SW-677 ADV CLINICAL PRACTICE GROUPS
This concentration year course examines clinical group work as a basic unit of intervention. A trauma-informed, resilience focused framework guides practice with group members facing various life conditions, circumstances, and events. Grounded in the values and ethics of the profession, students engage with material using a trauma-informed, resilience focused framework. Students integrate trauma-informed, and culturally responsive practice skills as they relate to various populations, including marginalized, vulnerable, and oppressed groups. Students develop advanced competency implementing strengths-based, mutual aid, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive practices, focusing on the impact of individual and structural inequality. This course focuses on the ability to practice with self-awareness around personal values and biases to enhance the therapeutic alliance with groups while expanding the collective capacity of the group for shared vulnerability around intersectionality of identities and inclusivity. The course covers numerous group work strategies and skills, drawn from a variety of theoretical perspectives within a range of practice settings.